Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]
Author: - ISBN: B00GDLY8Q2 - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society - and especially parents - to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others? actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice.
Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 6 hours and 41 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: November 12, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GDLY8Q2
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78 Reviews Start reading Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil on your Kindle in under a minute Don 39 t have a Kindle Get your Kindle here Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil Paul Bloom on Amazon com FREE shipping on qualifying offers A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil Audiobook by Paul Bloom and Mike Chamberlain English 2013 ISBN n a ASIN B00GDLY8Q2 6 hours and 41 minutes MP3 Paul Bloom Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil 2013 ISBN 0307886840 1847921620 0307886859 273 pages EPUB MOBI 0 7 MBJust Babies The Origins of Good and Evil 2013 epub mobiPaul Bloom Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil 2013 ISBN 0307886840 1847921620 0307886859 273 pages EPUB MOBI 0 7 MB A leading cognitive Download Link http www rarshare com just babies the origins of and evil by paul bloom pdf Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil by FREE eBooks Apps Download Home Home eBooks Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil by Paul Bloom PDF Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil by Paul Listen to Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil audiobook by Paul Bloom Stream and download audiobooks to your computer tablet or mobile phone Bestsellers and Just Babies The Origins of Good and Evil Pub Date 11 11 2014 Publisher Crown Publishing Group 10 00 19 45 Hardcover 1 10 00 19 45 Currently Viewing
I read Paul Bloom's Descartes' Baby: How The Science Of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human some years ago and found it an intriguing and persuasive read. This book in some ways picks up where that one left off. Descartes' Baby had the thesis that babies are born in some sense 'hardwired' for things like a very basic understanding of physics, like that objects have some sort of physical permanence and that objects that go up will come down. This book, cataloguing a host of intriguing studies, argues that babies are 'hardwired' for certain basic moral sentiments (a basic sense of justice, fairness, etc).
For instance, in some studies, infants and toddlers will 'help' a stranger by pushing a ball back to the stranger or helping a stranger by reaching for an object the stranger seems to want. In other studies, babies are shown a puppet show with two sets of puppets; in one, the puppets help each other, and in the other, one puppet does not help the other. When given a choice, Bloom reports that a statistically significant number of infants and toddlers choose to play with the helping puppet rather than the non-helping puppet.
Bloom's chapters range from exploring infants' and toddlers' sense of justice (little egalitarians, they tend to be), their sense of empathy (they generally prefer to help others, but this desire increases with age), whether their 'moral sentiments' change when dealing with members of their family or those who look like them, their sense of disgust (both moral and physical), etc. But here is where my mild complaint about Bloom's book starts.
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